Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So for some children it is deemed better to place them in small homes where it is easier to maintain continuity of care . |
| 2 | Great news , you might think , for Aunt Agatha , who had begun to fear that , instead of taking young Billy Whizzquid 's advice and putting her savings under the professional management of a unit trust , she would have done better to put them under her mattress . |
| 3 | Those that had children struggled desperately to keep them within the state school system and also to see the frequent failures of others to succeed in this as being somehow a rather nasty disease , with compassion and sorrow the appropriate response , rather than the fierce bell-like anger they would all have produced reflexively only ten years before . |
| 4 | Do you think though , perhaps you could have done more to keep them in the Party ? |
| 5 | When transferring animals between cages it may be found easier to coax them into a bottle than to handle them . |
| 6 | One is hard pressed even to find them in London . |
| 7 | Fortunately , many of these loopholes are now being closed by new amendments and , hopefully , there will be less frustration for the law-enforcers who , in the past , have seen many villains slip through the net after they have worked hard to bring them to justice . |
| 8 | No , not a dog , a bodyguard stationed there to protect them from evil . |
| 9 | They still do , but I 've learnt now to keep them in my lap so that the sweat coming off the hands soaks into the trousers . |